Go the Fuck to Sleep

One of Reader's Digest's 25 Funniest Books of All Time Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this. --New YorkerA parenting zeitgeist --Washington PostA hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep. --National Public RadioA new Bible for weary parents --New York TimesResonates powerfully with almost everyone --Boston Globe Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, Go the Fuck to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.